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II II t v THE CAUCASIAN, rruMsiiED every Thursday. MARIO BITLEil, EUUrata Prt. SUBSCRIBE! Show this raper to your neighbor and advi hirulo HufaK-rire. -:o:- SubHcrintiyn Price $1.0U per year in Advance. BRIEF 0PIN1QHS. If that Tennessee woman who re .1 i...ti. i , u.j JT'i'Illlj Ljliv; owm ui dia iiimicB ;iau Hived in New York, Commissioner IlirfL- u'finld undoubtedly bnve claim. ed the increase due to the McKinley 'till. Jjahor Journal. Capital and labor are brothers, we ure told. So they are, and so srere Jacob and Esau. Dut one of he brothers wants the apple on con ation that he -hall give to the oth- the core after he lias knawed it as !6sea he likes. K. of Journal. I "Although we have struck the gains, the fetters, frm four mill: la blacks of the South, there it a lonetary system growing up in tmerica which will sqoaer or later Isten the chains on all the Ameri n People. Abraham Lincoln. WiiES-thi natron was young and oak it declared "that Congress fall hare power to coin moaey and f re milatc iw value." Now it is the latest natiou on earth, and the Iders of the two old parties say we net have au international coafer- ice. Shame on the little weak- tigs! Where is the spirit of your Ithers? Kansas City Sun. I It is just at dangerous to the state nd ourht to be as criminal to se- lire votes lv lying as by buying. to gel votes by lying is the same as Attaining goods under false pretenses fhieh ranks with theft in the law i)oka, yet the candidate or political iirty that gets votes in this way is okcd upon as very clever and ranks agh as an adept in practical poli te. I' it t slur (i Ka n mn , i Thk total receipts of cotton at all rts and interior towns is already lore than 500,000 bales less than at lis date last vear. The weather has r . ecu pute favorable for picking all icr the cotton belt too. If this be i indication of the shortage, and it treasonable to suppose that it i?, en the crop may fall at least two ullion bales short of the amount re- I up correspondingly, but will it? Progressive Farmer j Let's see about this howl that the Hern men t cannot fix values. By t of parliament the basic of Eng Jul is compelled to buy all the gold illion offered at 3 pounds 17 shil ' figs'- pei.ee per ounce standard. Is vjs not an attempt to fix value? ive thev succeeded? Gold is a i ' I duet and a commodity; what I v..n l. t. ..1 K..V jii' in duiii:l mis iicfii Lic.ii.cu l tin a. Igland has passed this Jaw fixing price of bullion and says that Id onlv shall be freelv caiued: at it is the only true basis of val- They are responsible for the de jnetfzution of silver in this country say that free silver is in the in 1st of the silver kings. Free gold, lever, is not (?) in the interest of d kinrs. lhnmria (Kan.) Tid- pK cotton crop of 1873 was 4, $,3SS bales, averaging 444 pounds pie bale, and sold in New York 17 cents per pound, making the fig little sum of $314,780,88(5,24. lis was the year silver was demon led. The cron of 1891 has 9,035,- bales of 477 pounds each, and in .New York at 7 J cents per jnd, making a total of $323,240, 1,47. If the crop of 1891 had 3 at the same price the crcp of 3 brought, the amount would been $732,078,888,21, which ws a difference of $409,43&201, I This amount ii!uecottou mers have been robbed by the dc- J .petization ot silver,-m oac . year, w take all the vears from 1873 to I present and a similar calculation leach will show something of the U'uiiiy of the crime perpetrated on greatest industry m America by f infamous demonetization act of J. Progressive Farmtr. iVe endorse every word of the ap ded speech of Wayne MacVeagh, knows whereof bespeaks "Dur- I the last twenty years, by very W approaches, large numbers of llthy men in this country have luaded thmeselves that they art I liberty to pervert government in its noble and loftv function ecu ring the greatest good to the atest ur.moer into the base and raded function of taximr the ma- nty ia order to hand over those tes as bouuties to such persons as, return for those favors, wilt con hi te large su ms of money to car elections. I : distinctly alleg "'they are now making themselves '-4 to a systematic corruption of -pot in the bands of the Ame foter, and that whoever collects tribute money for such a pur I morally guilty of trea-on to I titutious our fathers founded pon wnose contiuuance in their th and purity the welfare of hildren depends." National )iiit. VOL. XI. STATE NEWS. TIIE DOINGS OF OUR PEOPLE BRIEFLY AND PLAINLY TOLD. ILtPPENIKGS OF THE DEX8ED. Week Cost Our jonng friend and townsman, Dr. JoshnaJTaTloe, has been honor ed with the chief Marsha Iship of the Ilocky Mount Fair which comes off on the 8, 9 and 10th of next month. W ashmgtan Progress. W. Iw Ifenrv, of Henderson, is one of the strongest men in the State. lie can hold ont 50 poa nds on his lit tle finder and 80 pouudajiu his hand. lie is 6 feet in height and weighs over 250 pounds. He keeps up his strength by daily exercise with dumb bells and Indian clubs and other ap paratus. Winston Sentinel. A large English syndicate isfigur ing to establish a $250,000 cotton mill in Rocky Mount. A large ci garette factory has been arranged far, whila two other factories are preparing to locate here. A company to bnild a large hotel is being organ ized and ather new enterprises are be- iag arranged for. Argtnaut. The Orion Knitting Mills received, among others, an order several day3 ago from one house in Chieago for d,loo dozen hose,amaunting to nearly $4,000. The machines for making misses hose, eight in anmber, hare orders now on hand that will tax their utmoat capacity until the middle of rebruary. Kinston Free Press. The Enterprise Bays the fishing season at Morehead aow open prom ises to get better and better. A single days shipment by rail recently was 300 boxes . and 40 barrels of fish. Joseph Fulcher a fifteen year old boy caught $4.00 worth in a few hours with hook and line and the Willis crew (sons of Mr. Joscphus Willis) caught $160 worth of Spanish Mack erel in one night. Another crew made $85 and others have been very successful. A. B. McLaia, well known among the sporting geu try, had trouble with some one batnruav afternoon and Patrolmen Wild and Ilenrr went to Hampton and Featherston's bar, where McLain was, to investigate. McLain supposed he was to be ar rested, and as Wild approached him pulled his pistol and fired at Wild twice in rapid saccession. Neither shot hit the officer, who stooped to avoid the bullets. I he shooter then walked to the door and disappeared. Asheyille Citizen. The postmistress at Kenansrille, who has held the oflice for several years and given perfect aud entire satisfaction, a lady of high personal character, has been removed, and iu her place appointed an ignorant, uncouth negro man. Nor is this all. The negro could not give the $10,000 bond, and ia order to "get him in" the bond was reduced for his special convenience to $8,000. The citizeas are justly indignant, but petitioning against the outrage has availed nothing as yet State Chronicle. On last Satnrdry morning about 3 o'clock the Court House in Lilling- ton with nearly all the Clerks,' Sher iffs aud Registers racords was burned. The origin of the fire is not known. It is supposed some -one smoking must have thrown a cisrar on the carpet and possibly caught from that. It is a sad loss to Ilaruett county. The taxes will have t be listed again and all the work done over, as the tax books were all burned. The loss does not onl i hurt the county affairs, but mauv individuals lost valuable papers of various kinds. Puna Times. hlnab Loftin. colored, who at tended the jail of this county for a number of years, died after a short illness last Mondav. aged about 56 years, lie was a goou uemocrat ww i -a-x aad never voted anything but the straight Democratic ticket He was an honest and faithful negro. One instance will give an insight into his honesty and faithfulness. He help ed Mr. J. M. l'arrott, deceased, and his son, Albert, when the Yankees were in this section, to bury $6,000, and kept the seere faithfully. All true white men respect and honor such a faithful negro. Kinston Free Press. The People's party aieeting held in this place oa Monday was a small gathering, but those present claimed to feel enthusiastic over the prespect in this county, especially as they had secured the promise of enough Dem ocratic veter3 to elect their ticket. The death ot Amos Longest, (col.) which occurred last week, re moves a familiar figure from the streets of Southport. Old Amos, the woodcutter with saw oa his shoulder, was known to every ne. Amos was said to have fought in the was on the . Federal side and was wounded at the battle of Bull Run. Southport Leader. ' k Mr. D. C. Simpkins shewed ns yesterday the finest bunch of pears wc ever saw or ever expect to see. There were seventeen on one bunch and the little twigs making out from within a space of 18 inches. It was almost a solid block of pears. There were at urt four others on the branch then we doubt not it was a solid block indeed. The weight of the twenty-one pears was twenty-two pounds. They were grewn by Mr. Elijah Davis, of Smyrna, on a seven year old tree purchased from the nursery of A. D. Pratt which Mr. Simpkins and his brother represent. The tree was estimated to have borne 700 of the pears this season. They are of the Duchess De Angouleme variety. Ex, s H GaTerameit Oaaerskip roatfs. pt Oail J. M. xarshburn la Southern Mercury. On the mention of the ownership of railroads by the government the time politicana of renublican and democratic schools become scenic if not tragic when reason and logic are lost in the pathos of impetuous ex clamations. Iu their remarkable senility at a new measure tliey seem menaced with danger from some ia curable atrophy. The emotion is too great for aaything but acclama tions and they iterate and reiterate "it will cost eight billions to buy and to hold the railroads." Having so exclaimed, mute astonishment seizes them. They imagine the ar gument is exhausted, the proposition is reduced te an absurdity, and noth ing is to be said. "They willl cost eight billiens. It will bankrupt the country to pay such a sura of money, even during the period of a genera tion. Who now can add anything Have these anti-deluvian politiicans thought or do they, without thought. conclude a thing must be wrong if nashitfgton and Jefferson did not ad vacate it? These imprcshionable. theatrical geatlemea have for a gen eration imposed a crael oppressive tariff on the people! This has not frightened them and thrown them into irrational ecstacies! For Ham ilton, Jefferson and Calhoun have advocated a tariff, and that makes it stereotype orthodoxy. But now as we approach A. D. 1900, let us think a little and com pare the cost of railroads with what the tariff Jhas cost "the working people" in the last thirty years. Wewillgiv! results rather than processes, though those are based on facts and mathematical calculations. It might be well for laboring men to look at a new facts, if the obsolete politician refuse to examine a new measure. Under the tariff let ten million men use each 3 cigars a day for 30 years. Thejextra coat will.be at least 2J cents each. And how are they astonished to find that they aave paid extra, under the tariff pelicy, $8,212,500,000! 15ut look- in: rive million men drink 3 glasses a day. The extra cast 5 cents a drink. In 30 vears the extra cost nader the operation of the tariff, is $8,212,5000,000. Ten utilliou men chew tobacco and three million smoke pipes. In 30 years the extra cost of chewing and smoking is $4,- 11'6, 350,000. Now notice you have paid far the railroads more than twice aud a half bv the excess than these arti cles cost yoa, for you have paid the round sum of $20,531,250,000! Look still again. In 30 vears ten million laborers have paid for cloth ing for themselves and their chil dren, buying one deceut neat suit a year and have an overcoat every three years for themselves extra, under the operation of the tariff, the sum of $9,579,375,000. And iu 30 years have paid extra for female clothing, $13,515,000,000. In 30 years the extra cost of the table to laborers aud their families is $50,- 643,750,000. Far a handred other necessaries such as stoves, carpets, iron tools, brushes, paints, building materials, shawls, shoes, hooks, and what not laborers have paid, uuder the opera tion of the lariff, extra in 30 years, 50 billions more. Aud the last esti mate is a very low one. It id probable that our innocent old time politicians, not given to the unusual informative of thinking, nver had sach thoughts as these to cross the horizon of their mental vision, because Washington or Jef ferson never suggest such things. Summing-, up we have $43,169,375,- 000 as the sum the laboriug men have paid in 30 years, extra under t he operation of the tariff. Is it not astonishing? . and more astonishing that our politicians have been toe in- 1 xjeut of thought te discover the k nazing facts?? Now let us pay the eight billious for the railreads. From $143,569, 375,000 take the cost of 'the rail roads $8,000,000,000 and we have left the sum of $135,269,375,000. Wchada billion Kepublicau Con gress and a billion Democratic Congress, the latter "adjninisteriug the government economically." So in 30 years allow the statesmen a billion dollars a year for their econo mic administration." Then we have $135,269,375,000 less $30,000,000,- 000, leaving $105,269,375,000, Ac cordiuslv, in 30 years, the laborers of the country have paid the eight billious for the railroads, thirty bill ions for the "economic administra tion of the government," and the ex tra sum of $105,269,375,000. How wonderful that our learned and acute statesmen cau find no wy to pay eight billions for railroads ia one generation! How natural andunaviodable that laborers are groaning under a gov ernment managed for the last 30 years by Kepublicans and Democrats I have before me the details of these calculations, but there is space to give only results, will the obso lete politicians become theatical over these figures? Do they care haw the people are oppressed and dis tressed? Doe the Democratic or Republican party care? Far from it These figures, with an anrumeut containing more than twenty thoa sand words, laying open the bold frauds ef the tariff policy, were of- ferd to the NJatioual . Democratic Committee for a campaign document aud the committee . declined to ac Let us return to the question of the ownership of the railroads by the railroads by th government. - And observe, that far the government to rtnvn them is for the people to wh them in an orderly manner.- CLINTON, N. C - ..; Can tbe government bar the rail roads, and pay i foe 4hcm? ' If the tariff, waa eased op a little, would not the daily toilers pay for than Jbj 1922, and allow the 30,000 with their wealth to enjoy cheap rides and cheap freight on the government's railroads, and pay nothing for them? If our statesmen could be aared of these facts it would . not coat them no thought; save them trora their in vincible horro! and from the pain ful work of "straining at a gnat and swallowing a , camelr . It would save them. ; too, from' the' difficult breathing caused by attempting t liave a new ideaL;""; v;f; The : gorernment, as tihe Jpeopie, has the'absolute right ta recall the railroad franchise, which' is al ways a defeasible title to he divested for W sufficient reason, and revested ia the sovereign DeoDleT Government is in stituted on r the ldeu that private rights mnst ' yield '- tt the sreneral good. It is pursuant to this princi ple that the railroads obtained - their franchises; and pursuant to the same principle they must yield j bark the right in turn to the higher right aud sovereign' well being of the country. ' The franchise", is granted upon the express or implied condi tion that it shall not be nsed to the injury of the citizens; and if it.is so used, the condition 'I1 violated, and the f ranchise may be reclaimed. On this ground,' there'; is ' no ; doubt that the ' government may justly possess itself of : the railroads.' But especially may it do se by paying the equitable value of the roas. ' This is the just, the easy and the natural solution of the apparently; perplex ing question. ; ;f H - i:i :-i ihe government has both -the le gal and the moral right to own and to control the railroads. As a ones tion, not of prudence and good poli cy, ought the 1 gorernment to own them.' When truly considered, in the light of reason, this proposition must be answered in the affirmative. The scheme is for the sole good of the people or country. The busi ness will be conducted for the wel fare of the whole 'people. - There will be no profits made.; That is not the object. It is the people act ing for the good of themselves. It is their government, their enterprise, their railroads and their business. - ' But the politician of a century ago, fuller or. objections than of statesmanship, now becomes theatri cal again: "It will require an army of men to : cwndnct the business of the roads! and, think of th patron age, in an election, these 'will r gi ye to an administration!" To the states men whose chief care consists iu drawing their salaries; in living high, and in smoking and drinking. this may seem to be an insuperable objection. - But to J other '-kinds of statesmen, to whwnt - are committed new questions -fraught with "good to a grtat nation, there ought to be little trouble , involved. These ar deemed to be men of thought, wise men, meu -not racked by ambition nor sold in slavery to their own self ish ends. They are, by the theory of our government, the capable, hon est, faithful agents of the people, to whom are committed the highest and most sacred political . trusts. These are to devise the " new , plan. means of obviating incidental diffi culties. To these exalted, unselfish statesmen, is not such away of reas- oning as the following tree from doubt? It is the p-6plea business that is to be conducted, and . those who conduct it are the hired agents of the people. : It is their sole business to do the work as are di rected: and the law of congress di rects how the work shall be done. There are grades iu the work; but all the employes are simply agents, and no one has the slightest right to say how the. work shall be done. Well what? Pay : men fair and honest wages for the services they ' perform. Let their time, talents and services be given to their work. - Let the elective franchise be suspended so long as they are in the employment;: of the government. The honor of votiug shall be lost in the higher honor of service; and to attempt to vote or to influence another how he shall vote, shall bea - misdemeanor, and shall forfeit : his employment, added to fine and imprisonment.' And herein is the solution of this part of the questiou. A new needed meas ure originated m theongoiujr of so ciety, must gather about it all the in cidents necessary to give it effect. 1 he true ground is, That the gov ern men t should carrv on whatever is for the general good; for, when net corrupted, 'we mnst ever v bear in miud that the government and the people are one and the same. ' Sep arate the government from' the peo ple and its management by them. and the management goes to parties i f i . : , . t wmcn are manageu uj puuuwaus for personal and class purposes. "The resul t is seething, corrn pti ve, reisnlt- ing in the benefit -of the few and ; the oppression and the distress of the many. -.-i ui . . . . No intelligent ana fair minueu r "a -m man can deny that for - a t score of years the two leading- political par ties in this country haye-beea bank rupt in moral and civil integrity,5 ap pealing to the passions .and preju dices of voters for the purpose of se- mm ' curing places ot nouor, t ana especi- Now, there is presented ? a great question, vital in its importance to the general welfare of the . conn try. It is a national question, fundament al in character and all embracing in character and all embracing' ja -lts- consequeuces. : Ujosely -Tjconnected with it is the weH-bemfc' of ' every person in the natipn. As ' uBlyersal m itVreach as ? the; postal Interests it is a hundred or a . thousand times more' important to the prosperity of the people. And of all the matters 1 1 a i NOVEMBER 3, 1892. it is" One that shonld be conducted Dj ine people, mrough i&e govern meaty tor their own good. i . . . . . . Tbe ownerthip of the r.ads bjf Tiwre is lo tjtie,4km Kim- U-ferv the government, is no more putrn the ptvplc of s grt-at importMiu-i al than management f tb postal j the restoration uf the silver dollar to service,, the granting of pdknta or the plaiv aaoigned it-tie drr the n the constrnction of a national read i stittitiosi a.vi occoirtrJ bv it for more from Washington to St. l e iii So than i jUtv vi-arai a full lrpl ten long as the nations txjctinue kirlia-, der coin of iLe n-alm. In 1S73 i nans ia as to go to war, the natbaal ownership of tlie railro&U h of .the'a&4 ut importance as a part i me j ;grfH,i fro:ii ti,e Li-h i law digued asj and prisons art- lcomm- war departmeutw just as necessary jt bv Uiu-rniedancmalitvof teiu- greaUy overcrowded and that the hu asu have a navy for the same :ir-1 a-t-quli v sth gold, and 1t beiu of criinea anJ Mitcidt arv seUjut' if"i. i. , bereft of its full legal tender' quati- to alarming proportiotiA? It MM Untthe chief aud unanswerable j ties. Why was this doa -? .Simply ihe night overland exprt- ran over argument why the nation should tr 'oiiim.. tu. rin f and kill! wwu uc raiiroauB is maui win very greatly promote the prosperity of all .1- 'a m . . m . . ine people. Carrying pasougers at the least . i6ssible cot will invite travel to everv Dart of the eoujilrv This will tend to make the people acquaioted with each other over all jthe cotuitrv; will allay prejndictts, create friendships, extend confidence, incrcasctradc throughout the coun try unify the nation in the form of the highest and best civilization, and will be a bond perpetually to strengthen the state and the national government. jeaioiisies ana prejuicie removod the local productiyeness of th? dif - xerent parts oi me country uuaer-jswn, cjjVi.r ,vus demonetised, thus stood, the cheape-Mt possible cast of limiiicij the pani-nt of the bonds transportation afforded, each -partofjia goidaloi.e, again very larjfelv en the country would devote its indus- j hanriiip their value. In 1&?C. when tries to the prtnlnction of the vl- silrer was partially rehatiiliated, the ues of which the climate and soil arci Ticiou; provision "was incorporated htted. With the greatest amount i the Uir in regard to t he silver dol of values prodiicfnl, hew great would j krs to be cjincd under it, which was oe me interstate commerce: l he nation is almost a world within it- self. With industry, fairncs and honesty, in a generation or two, there would not need to be a really poor person in the entire country. But to have such management we shall need statesmen, not'politicians men men of brains, heart; integrity and true patriotism. The nation " is wasting by the atrophy of moral and civil impurity. 'The- deople have little on ti deuce in peliticians or ia the political parties. .Still they are de coyed into the parties aad there kept in chains by the necromancy of the artful politicians. To-day there is net in the-United States an intel ligent man of moral integrity enough to make him a good citizen who has any considerable confidence in the republican or the democratic party, orin-their partisans to Mork out a ftceesif nl 4es tiny to the people un der our form of government. ...Can there be any solid reas'ou giv en why the people, as the govei u ment, should uotoa-uthe minus of carrying products and value to all parts of the country just, as letters. etc., are now carried by the wails? i ne gain to tnev farmers tiione in five vears would be eor.al to the cost i V of the rads. . The reduced . rates ta ' the traveling public would, iu five years, pay for the road ;. The prodi gal waste of the last two congresses iu sixteen years, wonld pay the prin cipal for the railroads. Then, if the matter is so plain, why do men so oppose it? The general auswer is. 'Tbey lo.ve darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." It is the curse of party; the love of self; the laziness to think; the oppo sition to what is novel: blind adher ence to the past, together with the innate love of wrangling to humbug the people all these stand in the way of this and of all progress. In religion, in -science, iu politics, in law, iu medicine, in the arts, ineu hate what is novel worse than they hate what is evil. The pnaciple is a nightmare on the world's progress. Corporation Illiincs. Who owns America? The railroad companies own 211,000,000 acres, or euough to make six .States as large as Iowa. The Vanderbilts own over 2,000,000 acres, Mr. Disston, of Peensvlvauia,' owns over 4,000,000: the Standard Oil Com pany, : 1,000,000, and Murphy, of California, au area equal to that of the State of .Massachusetts. The Schenley estate owns land from which the heirs have received annu ally $1 ,000,000. Twenty-one mil lion acres are owned bv foreigners, wbo owe no allegiance to our Gov ernment, and are no friends to a re public What will our children vnr a ngnt to pay rent .x. And still the laboring masses-will persist in voting for and keeping in power a party mat, dj their legisla tive cnactmen te, gave the above lands away. And still the New York WM, persists in advocating the cause of a man who never reclaimed an acre ot this filched public domain and a party which assisted in the transfer ence. Rotten Eggs in Kansas.' - Pbiscetox, Kast., Oct, 3. Con gressman John O. Otis, was rotten egged nere by a A crowd of : roughs while reparing ! to his hotel :t after making a speech A letter to his wife at Washington, D. C, of Oc tober 3, says: . - '"- ""." . My old - straw " hat is somewhat aeited and permanently stained, but I can lay it away as a memento in after years of the conflict now go ing on between the "great common people' and the "aristocracy - of wealth. Tin . horns, brass bands and stale eggs are about all the ar guments now left to the Republicans, since falsehood, abuse and ridicule is failing them. ','!.Cy Great indignation is felt over the disgraceful brutality of the affair, and the silence of the Republican papere upon it while loudly denouncr ing Weaver's treatment in Georgia. !saa4 Silver Heathy er. rel aery of Orrtvn. t was d?ajoi:etbvd bva lrtrlatie trick mat it usu utn ie- t . . . ll3ent lads held by miLilis!s of ) onr own -wintry aad Kurort. The jproat portion of the national debt at th,. i."s u.. .,- t.:,. ta nearly throe billiou dollars wan made payable in lawful money' In 1800 a:i act was pa&?au by congress pledging tho- nation to pay the pub lic debt, bjth principal and inteieat, iu x-oin or its equivalent, added hundreds of millions ' This to the wealth of the bondholders and to the bifrdfiis of the taxpayers. In LS70 another change was niadr, an-I congress stipulated to ! p;iy the debt iu "coin of the pree-nt j standard value." In 1873, m we have t also inccirixraUd in thflua- f 1R90 nrovkl.V.jT f.,;- th.. iEn.Kun. r.f Kliv-r certificates, that they should not be a legal tender iu.case the creditor de manded a stipulation for gold. As we have seen,, it is a fact which can not be disputed, that providing both gold aad silver he full legal tender money, the business require ments of the world demand paper mony in addition. The estimated worhfs supply of 4,300,000,000 sil ver iis su)plci:icnted with 3,1)00,000, 000 paper. It makes, as any one can readily see, a vast difference to the holder of securities'whether they are to be paid in gold and silver or gold alone. If they are to be paid in gold alme, its comparatite scarcity makes it more valuable, and thereby enhances the value of their securities while at the same time it increases the burden of the taxpayer. From sel'Jsh motives the holders ef securi ties are monometallism, and will probably vote for cither one or the other of the monumetallist candi dates, while from the same motives, with the additional prompting of justic .and fair plav. everv other m:jou in the land ill mid vcteaainit them in order fo restore silver lo the place assigned it by the framers of the constitution. The evil consequences of the de monetization of silver by this and other countries, by which the legal tender money of tiie world baa been reduced about one-half, can never be fully measured. A. careful exami nation of the great facts of history lneontestably shows that at periods and in countries when and where money is plentiful prosperity follows, while adversity and retrogression follow a shrinking of its volume. It shows as .rm eminent historian has asserted, that the fall of the. Roman empire wa really the result of a de cline in the silver and g-jld mines of Spain and Greece; that the dimu nition of coined money from $1,800, 000,000 at the Christian era to less than $200,000,000 at the close of the fifteenth century waSjthe real cause of the relapse into t-emi-barburism which occurred dtmngthut interval, and it has abundantly demonstrated that in subsequent periods, when mouej was plentiful, prosperity fol lowed, while in periods when money became scarce a general decliiie in values, enterprise aud progress was the inevitable result. If this be true and it cannot be succesfnlly controverted how atrocious has been the crime committed by civil ized governments, at the heck and call of the money barons, of dimin ishing the volume of money by the demonetization ef silver, It will not do to sav that it id still in use as mouey, for iu the true and strict! sense it is not money if it has not1 that necessary function of money a plenary debt-paying attribute. 13y the deprivation of the legal tender qualities of silver, the volume of real money has been vastly reduced, auu not only our own nation but all the nations of the civilized . world are taking those retrograde sts which eighteen hundred vears ago first lei into the gloomy period of the dark ages. This is no fanciful assertion. Look where we may and we find business pursuits languish ing and enterprises baiting. Where should be - growth . and prosperity there is stagnation if not decline. A late number of the London Financial News, in alluding to the conditions now existing in that country, said: "We are sitting, a3 it were, on the edge of a volcano. Something must be done to relieve the ruinous tension or in a "few- m5n ths time we shal 1 wake np to a stats of industrial dis tress in Ecgland of appalling and perhaps uncontrollable dimensions." The widespread strikes in this coun try and the increasing army of the unemployed, retnltaai on a stagna tion of business, should awaken us here to the . dangers impending. Nereiddling while Rome was burn ing did not portray a more criminal callousness than is exhibited - by the mouometallists in adhering to their fatal policy in the very face of its mi n nous results. At my mill in. Portland as well at my office in Salem, I am repeatedly ana constantly importuned by men able and anxious to, work, some of - . . . - - ' " j " "T -- - - No. 4. them with families t Atthport are ont of employment and oat i f money and a bo, owin to the vrrrl staguatioo of boiors couwiurol npi the diminution of the ol.uih vi the carrmev, rr unable : find work. Kvery)iuiif mm tit tm go can trll ih same iory. What are ibwe wen U do? llw are thev to timtki t)w t .. r. it" ! fovnl aJd clothair for thi-ir it. lilt . . chiiUrrit. is it anv wtuxVr tbt .r Albany m thii Mate. An examin. tion ef the body bowed, thai he ii a flue appearing muffairfv droed man. lie had l)f -eaW loaf of bread, au entity Ipuft ami a letter from Hi wifein'Tenhet-e ! ging for mney with whie to feed herself aud jhildrvn, The whuh story (nn be briefly told. A Stran ger m a strange land, -ekin?nr-plovmentaud finding none, without money and without hope and witK the cry of his loved ones for help ringing in hu far, in depnir he sought death as au end to hi troubles Who cau measure th suffering and lojwes inflict! bt this exeat crime of diminishing the volume of money Caused by the deiuonettzjilioa .f ver? Relievin? as 1 dc that there i. alif leyoud thin iu which au ae count miiet legivcu of our detd nere, I won lit uot for a thuusa I world's become ropnnible 'fortts:-: crime by giving mv vote for thow who uphold it. The prophet ie promise that "He that dcieih UK- gaiu of opprejisioiu, bis place of de fense stall be the munition of rocks " will not Ik vouch.afrl t those who abet the gain of oppressions by sup porting those candidates who at the instance of monometallic and for their gain, would stagnate tke busi ness and check the prosperity of the whole civilized world by refusing lo U!?e nlvbr as money. .Some sujtt-r.'I-eial so-calleil statesmen .insist tint the silver dollar, if nude a full legal tender, should po? more bullion. They forgat that fifteen years ago the cart-wheel tiade dollar of A'iO grain., not a legal tender, w;n at a dieco-aiit of froai 5 to 10 per cent, while the pre:iit standard dollar of 412J grain , a partial legal tender, i-s at pur, and would always remain so if made full leal tender. novcursfov. Au impartial Purvey of our nation al affair dUeloaca "the undeniable iact twat the federal "overnnient has ljecn for years nd is now under the domination not of the people but of plutocracy. Its ' legislation hyg iubredfor nearly a third ef acenturv oast t the benefit of the rich. They have been the favored beneficiaries of its generous Ixuntie3. Py tariff legislation manufacturers ef pro tected industries have become wealthy barous and by financial legis lation bond holders and bankers have become money lord. Munificent grants of land, sufficient in extent tj comprise cnipir.s. b-i'de large gifts of money have k'en 1estowel on railroad corporation?, whereby railroad magnates have become jx tent rulers in the land, while from ! the transmission of intelligence a j right and duty that Udongs to the i federal government alone other in dividuals have obtained iunueuse wealth and influence. Private cor poration., exercising governmental functions, unbridled by law, are im posing heavier burdens upon our people than are required by the pres ent profligate administration of the federal government When we con sider the great fact that the influ ence of capital and corporations dic tate the policy and the nominees of both the old political parties, and that the machinery both of the gov ernment and of party is unscrupu lously used to perpetuate these flag rant abuses, the contemplation is in deed most disheartening. Hut let in not despair. Even these adverse conditions should only serve to in spire our courage and redouble our efforts. Is it a just government that un duly taxes the poor, while entirely exempting wealth: that bestows its bounties upon favored classes; that renounces in behalf of private cor porations its prerogative in the is suance of money, and that demone tizes one of the precious metals for the sole benefit of the creditor cla".' it us undo these wrongs and restore the government to its original pur pose and practice. No higher mo tive can prompt our zeal, nor worth ier object demand our service. Ihe performance of this jrreai duty imposes neither the privation )t the camp nor the dangers of the battle-field. The heroes who. bv their valor and by their patriotism. founded our government, furnished us as a more potent and peaceful for the redress of wrongs than the bay onet Let us use it in fear of God and defeuse of justice. , There is a weapon firmer set, And surer than the bayonet; A weapon that rqmes down as still As Bnowflake on the winter's sod. Yet execute a freeman's will An lightening dofei the will of God. And from it bolts nor bar, nor locks Can shield yon 'tis ihe ballot box. "Gentlemen of the Coaventou," said a delegate at the Spink county republican convention. I rise to nominate a man who went" into the war with two good legs and came out with three." I move he be nomi nated by acclamation' yelled another which motion was carried when it was discovered the name of the three legged warrior had uot beeu an nounced to the convention. Onida Journal. IF TOU WOULD USL To lmaia)ra! itk tKnai tm tQV4 f iW Wt WBity tJa la tkUl aritio l NVrti Ctrob, Ibnd-il lt.riae ib- e!aaa f Tna us. Vawrla tie Tli4i 'C.r,T,v.Aj Ji!,! a !nr rirUtiA, Sea tf ike srrjr.-liftai I Iter I vtrntv fa Uv U rlo(5tcBl fvi tKit. t tliu rs J ia Ihi mttJ it- :me enrtcxt tctkh ! vf ? fv4 .a aad i.u;itwii rii .f mrt 11 -fH- N it); h caunttM , i-a a ,:jght bv i. e vtr gite ih t ;1 IVrjH -tv.ic party WAl CJV,tlOt u paity. ' i'.i ic n 1 h? maney jvwtr i that iu vr der to rvtieee ,! jtrki?!iitaS JVJ. pie lo that 4 w ie,.4f,t U draw thlr uti a .;.. (t fr tiet;mt9 that if .wal,' oM pnruiit thai ou -..- .-hatTon. The ni;hod d-.i.ie! ujn bv tla conspirators wa tg, Ukt pW;,,. of the machinrrv of the iovM r. ti and a.r I hat cn. lffi4 Ufikr enotii'h ua! I imkt - tht mnm think there waa an artiuj coatest In ISM for the iirtt time TTsll in-t took contrul of a N'atloaal heinocratie loin tnUou. and froai thru tu.til uo the prtf mtnaj ment, for ike of the fafW f the money jxacr, ha kvnholuUly de;1f t th.'dfmand if rinMeaths of that ha bn. faithfallv fted the ticket. A few backer iu your Kouthrru citifa who enjov rixviat 'prtyilcgt Tifce of (he Srit mrul nomilaiioB. h ue burned imeujt licfurtlbe gold, e.i calf, utiimiitg U repreteot the Uuo. r,.cV ..f il,e S !iiL SA.it h. llw they mifrri'ieiviitcsl' vim vaa Voa only ta Mill, l or 'finhUja yraiatoubave patiently toUnl the uvMi, iH'jim; i.-.r iviicf rrora the cpprra-ie le-ihitiou of the Kepnb- l:c:u mi i r, nti l ii-n heii hot. H.ti!isl t 1 r-l!?;etl with a lh ai. erst in ihe Whit.. II hoUMH of Cmuzn-fi prat tioally in tha (HMitrui rf the lfcltv. lo and hK..U the l're-ident voa hjj clcch coolly informs yon thai ihe hVral. indicy of th la-publican party that bad for lie object the gold standard with the. industrial hiMmjh which that irn pliis wu to udherot to. IU did i.ot wait-eii until he waa inaugur ated, but by a ptihlUlpd letter pro claimed hiniM-lf Wall ttreet's tool. He kImpjh-U in the face the Deroo eratie maes wha had votetl for him th a he might curry favor with the money pouer that bud dominated in the llquiblicaii party. Under his administration more thau ; eighteen millions of dollars were ptecuted bt tbi- bondholders under the name of premium on liuk The govern ment had under the law an undis puted riht to pay tbee -Umds. at par whenever the gnt-nback was ex ch.iiige.iblo at pi:r for oiu aud yet V, rover Cleveland was j olicitous for the honor of ihr untiim that wlun a mi 11 ion dollar bond was paid which had originally cokI only K0 cents on the dollar, that bal added a few thouMaud more for Ibcj.atriot ic landholder to carry off. lx-t his friends the banks should forgot him in 1887 when there wa a "stringen cy" in the money market and the banks were abort, Mr. Cleveland came to their assistance on the first call and loaned lhru seventy mil lion of dollars without interest This money had lawi 'collected from the people by burdensome taxation. If you farmers of the South bor- red dollar of that same money f mm one of these- ja-t banks, you had to pay irom to i. jwr cent for it When 3-011 ak for money at percent from the (iovernment an-ampler security, you are informed by the leaders of thu I)emxratic larty that ii :s "uiK-onsinuiionai. and eaa't be one; but they ficd no constitution al objection Ujthc (iovernment loan- in the bankt at one jier cent up to 00 percent, of the security, and tax ing you to pay interest to the banks on the whole face of the security i . . i! . ' . r yw jaws creating national oaaksj, and if there is a 'Stringency with you, you can borrow this one per cent money by putting up double security, and paying 8 to 15 p?r centi for it in advance. Are too men 'i Or will von justify tha as sumption of the "Wall etrcvt and Haudard Oil clique- which forced the nomination of (I rover Cleveland oh our unwilling party, that you are cattle 1 he driven in herds tinder the parly la4i to the tf;lls and votff into power the most implacable foe of the industrial claaes? They soy the ail ver and cognate questions of currency are not in w- sue now, but the only iue is that "negro domination. Is there of any mieeruy in tain, arouse toe meanest faculties of the wind hr an appeal to race prejudice? The real purpose U to keep alive the prejudi ces and ignorance of the pat and prevent both you and the colored mau from fixing your eves on tha thieves that have been rohbiug you all for '"twenty years past The spirit that prompts this attempt to revive and fan race prejudice and feeling iuto a flame now, is too low and contemptible for devils. - No man knows better than ii'rover Cleve land that the Force Dill ia dead be yond resurrection, and that.it was killed by Iiepubliean Senators who had courage enough to fight their own party and ttamkby your inter ests on the fiscal question. All hon or, I say to these men who coald rise above all party considerations and vote with your Morgan, your Col- Juit, your Daniels and your Duller or free silver, A measure that would slightly lighten the awful burden under which a patient people groan. Vust what has the Democracy of the North done for you, men of the South for the past twenty years? This question, if fully answered, Continued on Second Pago.J I - I
The Caucasian (Clinton, N.C.)
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